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Yet another new photo of Matthew Lewis in The Syndicate has surfaced online along with an article on The Mirror’s website. You can see the new photo in the gallery and read a snippet from the article below (there are spoilers so beware):

Tonight it’s Jamie’s story and we get more of an understanding about why he’s such a plank. You’ll still hate him, though.

While we wait to see if he’ll get his comeuppance for his part in the store robbery, Bob gets married and then has the op that could save his life.

Today we have two little bits of news. The first is a new promotional photo of Matthew Lewis from The Syndicate which you can view in the gallery.

Second, thanks to Kerstin, we have the full transcript from Matthew’s radio appearance on the Sara Cox show on BBC Radio One. You can read the full interview in the press archive! In the interview he talks about The Syndicate, Harry Potter, Rugby, his “lucky number” and more.

Sara: Now do you have season ticket with rugby? Can you get season tickets for these?

Sara: Oh lovely. Do you ever get recognized? Was it tricky because you were in all eight Harry Potter films, so did you get recognized when you used to go to rugby?

Matt: Yeah a little bit. To be honest with you, the last couple of weeks it’s been more about The Syndicate, which has been a bit different. Um, you know sort of people don’t even mention Harry Potter, which is quite strange.

Sara: Oh, beautifully and subtly brought on to your new show that your plugging there.

Matt: Yeah, put that in there

Sara: I must say were looking at pictures of you here, we will definitely get on to The Syndicate in a moment. When you were Neville Longbottom, how should I put this, well I bet your mother loved your face, but you were a little bit porkier, you were a little, especially when you were very young. Then is it true when you were in the latter film they had to ugly you up a little bit because you had gone to darn handsome.

Matt: Um, well I certainly had to have quite a bit of makeup on in the last film or so, for whatever reason, I have no idea why. But um.

Sara: I bet when you walk on set they go, “oh no.” Because it probably happened with all the stars, I mean with Emma and with all of them where they just walk on set and suddenly they look a bit more chiseled and grown up and a bit like they’ve grown. Because kids take time to grow into their faces don’t they?

Matt: Yeah absolutely

Sara: And they were all “oh no Matthew’s gone all handsome on us.”

Matt: Well we all started at the ages of sort of nine, ten, eleven, and then finished when we were about twenty so

Don’t forget to catch the final episode of The Syndicate tonight at 9pm on BBC One!

In a new interview with Digital Spy, Matthew talks about what it’s like being known for The Syndicate rather than Harry Potter. The final episode of The Syndicate will be airing tomorrow night at 9pm on BBC1, but I’m sure they will be re-airing the show more after that, so be sure to check your local listings.

“I had a couple of people stop me last week and ask ‘Are you in The Syndicate?’ rather than Harry Potter,” he told Digital Spy. “It’s been the first time I’ve ever been stopped and the person hasn’t asked about Potter. That’s a new experience and I didn’t think that would happen so quickly. I don’t want to act as if Harry Potter wasn’t the most amazing thing because it truly was, but it’s also great personally that I’m starting to see signs that I can move on from it and do other stuff that hopefully people enjoy.”

However, Lewis commented that fans of The Syndicate have not always taken to troubled character Jamie Bradley. “People seem to have really taken to the program, which is fantastic,” he said. “Most people aren’t too fond of my character Jamie, though, and they¹ve let me know… If I’m honest, Neville is clearly the better person but Jamie is a lot more fun to play.”

This morning Matthew Lewis was on the Sara Cox radio show on BBC Radio 1 to talk about The Syndicate as well as much more! The description of the show states: “Matthew Lewis chats to Sara about his latest show on BBC 1 The Syndicate, what it’s like being so good looking and his tattoo of number 11.”

Listen here, Matthew is on at about 1:50:45 and it continues until 1:58:00. You have 7 days left to listen and if anyone has time to do a transcript, please do and I’ll post it with a credit to you.

Don’t forget that the last episode of The Syndicate is on this Tuesday at 9pm and BBC1, this is the episode centered around Matthew’s character, Jamie.

The Telegraph has posted a new article on The Syndicate as well as a new photo of Matthew and co-star Amy, who play Jamie and Amy (Jamie’s sister-in-law) respectively. The article mostly focuses on Denise, one of the winners in The Syndicate. The photo may be seen in the gallery.

In the must-watch but can’t-look Grand Guignol BBC One serial The Syndicate, Timothy Spall is the dreamboat among the male cast members. Among the females it has to be Denise, because she is the only one with a personality. But it has to be admitted that when she got her teeth fixed, there was still half an acre of her outer surface that might still have repaid attention. No doubt the actress, Lorraine Bruce, looks like Keira Knightley in real life.

If you don’t know the plot, here it is. Five employees in a doomed supermarket somewhere near Leeds win 18 million pounds of lottery money between them. What happens next is a mixture of Spend Spend Spend and every other show in which you have seen people of restricted mental capacity having their lives torched by unrestricted wealth.

The Syndicate airs on Tuesday nights at 9pm on BBC One. There are two episodes left, with the fifth episode focused on Matthew’s character Jamie.